Hi!

Just to let you know that there is a new software called vArranger² that will allow you to play realtime music like on any professionnal arranger keyboard with a PC.

This software has been designed to control 100% of the specs of the Ketron SD2 module.

You can play natively any Ketron styles.

So : Ketron Styles + Ketron SD2 + vArranger² = amazing arranger.

Some musicians uses it as a backup arranger system.

Others uses it as a lightweight arranger solution when they are playing worldwide...

Feel free to ask any question about the software.
http://www.varranger.fr

Dan

i know about that software for a long time, but this software http://www.live-styler.de/home

is better and the price is lower to. your can buy the gold version and play not only ketron styles but other brands to.

CLICK HERE for anyone wanting to read the website translated into English though Google.


First impressions, this looks very professional, extremely well designed layout too. The approach to integrate it with the SD2 is also very good as it would mean it's a plug and play system optimised to sound good straight out of the box. Sounds great too in the demo.

Seriously well done.

What I find hard to swallow though is the price. If I understand this correctly, it's 350 Euro for the program and it does not have a sound engine. You have to turn around and then spend another 350 Euro on a KETRON SD2.

That's 700 Euro just to use the program as it was intended to be used. That's an awful lot of money. If the developers could only include their own sound engine they would have an instant success on their hands here.

Regards
James

you can buy livestyler plus 11 for roland-korg-wersi-yamaha.........styles

link:
https://secure.shareit.com/shareit/checkout.html?PRODUCT[300268572]=1&backlink=http%3A%2F%2F%0Awww.Live-Styler.de

price EUR 107.10 on a USB Stick and it support KETRON SD2 verry good
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5vl6t_lsketronsd2_music

Care to tell us why you think livestyler plays the Ketron styles better then Vranger?

I know livestyler plays all the styles, as long as you have the right soundsources. But you stated that livestyler is specifically better at playing Ketron styles then this solution..

Another question to you about livestyler, do you have any good sources covering the other brands sounds... Yamaha, Roland, WErsi and Korg? Just being able to use the styles is one, but having a selection of the right sounds is worth much much more...

Its hard and tedious to allways find the right sounds with every style you play, still not entirely happy with my Yamaha set-up and not even tried Korg or Roland except for some tweaked styles.
Its what makes the SD2 styles rock, because the module is so cheap and you get a great soundsource for those styles.

i said live styler is better becouse:

1-the price
2-live styler gold support more then one brand.
3-it wil support ketron audya verry soon
4-you get free update

but for arranger i love qranger, why:

1-midi+audio tracks
2-only audio track if you like it
3- 32 pattern in one style(8 intro+8 variation+8 fill+8 endings)
4-for every pattern you can create BPM and beat/bar like for example one variation in 3/6 120 BPM and the second one on 4/4 160 BPM
5-you can record 32 chords separately if you like.
6-you can conect VST
and..................

[This message has been edited by AFG Music (edited 02-21-2010).]

That's a much better price but what's the USB Stick for ?.
I'm big time against any software that uses Dongles. It's also nowhere near as pretty looking as the vArranger progarm above.

The user interface on vArranger is totally transparent. You could navigate that instantly without asking a single questions where Live Styler is a little all over the place and not as well labelled.

Regards
James

about usb stick i do not think is Dongles,
it is a bootable usb i think.

about interface you are right, live styler most have a better interface.

but one option more for livestyler is soundfont gm bank support, and the creator is now on linuxampler forum, so i think soon it wil work with linuxsampler to for giga sounds on windows


[This message has been edited by AFG Music (edited 02-21-2010).]

here one more demo of live styler plus with ketron sd2
http://www.live-styler.de/home/?Live-Styler_and%0AKetron_SD2

listen to mp3 on buttom of the page

It's not very clear though. It could very well be a dongle.



Sounds good to me. Crying shame it's user interface is nothing at all like V Arranger though.

James